Hello,
any advice please.
I am based in the UK and my broadband / WI FI provider is Sky.
I have blink camers and a Ring door bell.
I need to boost my wi fi signal to the front cameras and the Ring doorbell.

I am a complete novice with technology.
Can anyone recommend a good wifi booster please ( buying via Amazon)

Quick follow up question if I may… I probably need to use one of these for the Ring doorbell, but was debating where to put my fifth camera and in light of the manner of recent burglaries, I was thinking of putting it at the back of the garden looking towards the house.

I think I saw someone suggest using an extender for the sync module itself for far outlying cameras… is that something that would work?
My sync module at the moment is in my living room, and the furthest camera from it is down a few bars but still works and captures movement.

I was thinking of getting an extender for the sync module and placing that in my conservatory as close to the corner as possible so that the extender could be there for the new camera at the back of the property.

Hi there - thanks for getting back to me so quickly… in that case that fifth camera can be a spare as I am 99% sure that if the camera near the back door is only two bars with the module half way between the cameras at the front and back, then a camera mounted at the very end of the garden would have negligible signal.

As it is the main areas are all covered with four cameras… front, side, gates and garden … and have been tweaking their field of vision and think I have that sorted. The spare extender can go upstairs for my room then.

So far I am pretty happy with this system set up. I delete footage as it comes in of mostly me, lodger and ad hoc deliveries. It is there just in case the little toe-rags that busted open my side gate and my neighbours back gate make a reappearance!

RFs, you can probably still cover the bottom of the garden if you also get an additional sync unit, and place that next to the WiFi repeater, I’m thinking, from what you’ve said, in your conservatory.

If I’m imagining it right, this would get you as near as possible to the camera, with both a WiFi range extender, and a sync module. Be sure to use a separate WiFi ssid for the extender, so that it will be treated as a completely different system. If you use the same ssid as your main WiFi, you won’t be able to tell which one you are connecting to, and you could end up with it linked in to your main router, with all the range problems that would have.

To that new extended WiFi, with its own ssid, you would then setup a new sync module, which would obviously have good WiFi, it would be next to the extender. From there, add the spare camera to that sync module, and by default it will then be using the extender’s WiFi signal. Once set up, wander down to the bottom of the garden and try it out. If you have reasonable strength, and it seems to function in all regards, mount it as you finally want it.

The drawbacks of creating it as a separate system like this is that it shows under two headings in your app. One for each sync module, and you have to pick the chosen sync module first, before you can call up any cameras connected to that sync module. On the plus side, it’s all under the same account and all recordings are still in a single clip roll location, and are identified as to where they originated.

Look for spare sync unit on ebay or amazon, but be sure it’s suitable for the UK, if that’s your location. I’m thinking it is because you called it your garden.

Hi there - thanks for the response - I was wondering if a new Sync module might be the solution.
Thanks so much for the advice - The extenders are arriving tomorrow so one will definitely be used for the Ring doorbell and if I can find a decently priced UK unit it might be worth a try.

Curious - yes in the UK hence Garden - what would it be called elsewhere?

Most Blink units are in the USA, though there are other countries too, including the UK of course, and in the USA I think they often refer to it as their yard, but I’m sure our friends from across the pond will advise, if I’m incorrect.

Well my dual band extenders have arrived, having braved the quite frankly Victorian post-mistress to send the non-dual band ones back.
“why are you sending these back?”
“I picked the wrong ones”
“Well that was stupid”
Me: …

As I understand it, Sky Q in the U.K. reserves the 5Ghz channel for the actual TV main box and mini boxes, all other devices connect to the 2.4Ghz band.
So I just need to figure out if I can move the Sync Module somewhere in the kitchen to serve the front door and rear of property cameras properly and then set up the extender for the Blink,Ring and Chime devices on (if I understand the TP link instructions right) on SSID-Ext and hopefully that should be that … or did I miss something (highly likely!)?

If I recall correctly, Blink recommends setting the extender SSID to the same name as the SSID it’s extending. In other words, no “_EXT”. That’s what I did. There’s a FAQ or tech note somewhere in the support section.

There’s a good reason not to set them to the same SSID, when you are also utilising an additional sync module, specifically for the connection to a single camera, or batch of cameras, i.e. a complete system in its own right. I promise it will work better. It would be just like an entire system, elsewhere, on a totally different WiFi, like say the one at my fishing cabin, 50 miles away, and there is no possibility that you can pick up on the wrong WiFi connection.

Blink recommend the same ssid, for when you use a range extender, but are not adding a sync module to specifically pair with the extender. They do this because it simply won’t work, at all, if half of the same system is on one ssid, and the other half of the same system is on another ssid. Indeed, I see no way in which it could be set up.

Well I un-wussed myself with a stiff glass of lucozade (think gatorade, but much nicer) and here is what I did.
Set-up: I am in the UK with a Sky Q Broadband Hub (and Sky Q TV) - so the Sky Q main box and two mini-boxes all run on the 5GHZ of the router and everything else connects to 2.4GHZ according to Sky!

Took first TP-Link AC759 RE200 and activated it close to the router with the WPS button.
I made no changes via the Tether app to its name.
Once it had connected, I took it downstairs and having relocated the Sync Module and checked all the cameras were ok, I plugged it in to the furthest most point in the conservatory, by the window and overlook the back garden directly.

Went upstairs and checked the signal strength of the existing cameras and all (including the front door) all at full bars for both Camera to Sync module and Camera to wifi.

Next step (when it stops chucking it down with rain and no longer resembles the temperature of a polar bear’s ar$e) I will see what kind of signal I can get with the fifth and final camera on the ‘bomb shelter’ (a work/storage space at the bottom of the garden) and then put that there for full coverage of the property.

This may also be of interest to those with a Ring 2 Doorbell as well… the second extender, I used the Tether app on my phone to connect to it, change its name (SSD_EXT2.4) and then I plugged that in next to the Chime. I then froze my backside off unscrewing the faceplate, re-initialising the doorbell and then the Chime and pointing them both at the renamed different extender.
One thing I found out… where initially there was a delay between the doorbell and the chime ringing, it is now instantaneous…

Thanks so much to both @suttyblink and @ceedee for your patience with my noddy questions … I hope this helps some other random Brit especially if you have a Sky Q service which includes both broadband and the TV and miniboxes.

Great news! Keep us posted on every little detail…that’s how we learn!

Ps - I love my extenders. I have another VoIP setup, and I was contemplating a powerline setup. However, those gizmos are much more expensive than an extender. I bought a cheap one for less than half of a powerline kit, and plugged the VoIP box into the available 10/100 connector, Bam!

There’s a good reason not to set them to the same SSID, when you are also utilising an additional sync module, specifically for the connection to a single camera, or batch of cameras, i.e. a complete system in its own right. I promise it will work better. It would be just like an entire system, elsewhere, on a totally different WiFi, like say the one at my fishing cabin, 50 miles away, and there is no possibility that you can pick up on the wrong WiFi connection.

Blink recommend the same ssid, for when you use a range extender, but are not adding a sync module to specifically pair with the extender. They do this because it simply won’t work, at all, if half of the same system is on one ssid, and the other half of the same system is on another ssid. Indeed, I see no way in which it could be set up.

Aha! Good summary.

I have two sync modules close to my router; both on the same SSID. I have one camera that’s all the way on the other side of the house, so I put an extender in the garage, and gave it the same name. In my case, the “remote” extender is too far away for a sync, and I don’t want to put the sync in the garage. It’s currently tucked neatly in a pantry closet.

I have three camera on one sync, and one on another. Performance is fine. Could it be better?

Well my great idea didn’t quite work as planned because the first extender decided to rename itself and so the cameras at the back all dropped their connection and the ones at the front stayed attached to the original router!

So I unplugged the extender and made sure that the Ring and Chime were connected to the right one.

So I see I have two options.
I either reset and reinitialise this extender, just rename the 2.4GHz network to the same as the router and leave the 5Ghz as whatever it names it so at least I know which extender is which in the Tether app.

Or… initialise the extender but give it a different name and reconnect the sync module to that and one by one reconnect all the cameras back to a separate system to the home router.

That way if I do have to get a sync module specifically for the camera that will go on the “bomb shelter” at the bottom of the garden I am all set and just need to add the new sync module to a separate system.